Eagle Mountain Volunteers in Police Service (EMVIPS)
Supporting the Utah County Sheriff’s Office through non-sworn volunteer service in Eagle Mountain.
Eagle Mountain residents can express interest in volunteering here.
Supporting the Utah County Sheriff’s Office through non-sworn volunteer service in Eagle Mountain.
Eagle Mountain residents can express interest in volunteering here.
Eagle Mountain Volunteers in Police Service (EMVIPS) is the public name of UCSO CITY VIPS. The volunteer group began before the nonprofit. UCSO CITY VIPS, a Utah nonprofit, was formed in September 2015. We provide non-sworn volunteer support to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office in Eagle Mountain. The volunteer work frees sworn officers for the duties only they can do. It does not replace them.
Examples of how EMVIPS volunteers may help when the Utah County Sheriff's Office directs the work. Volunteers only take on non-enforcement tasks they have been trained for. That support lets deputies stay on work that requires a sworn officer, so paid staff are not stretched to cover every support need.
When the Sheriff's Office assigns the work, volunteers may help at a scene or with a city task. The job might be traffic, clearing debris, staying with a vehicle until a wrecker arrives, helping a stalled or stranded driver, or carrying keys, paperwork, and equipment where they need to go. It might be a check on a home while the owner is away, a welfare check, help finding a lost person, recovering found property, or a VIN check. At a larger incident, volunteers may help with food or with sorting who needs aid. Medical care stays with the people assigned to it. None of this is enforcement.
When the Sheriff's Office directs the response, trained EMVIPS volunteers may give non-enforcement support during an incident or community emergency. They work only within that assignment and their training. That help does not replace deputies, fire, or medical responders. It frees sworn personnel for the duties only they can do.
When the Sheriff's Office asks EMVIPS to help, trained volunteers may support Eagle Mountain events with non-enforcement tasks such as sharing information, guiding people, or other assigned support. They only do what direction and training allow. Covering those tasks with volunteers cuts the need for extra paid support, so deputies can stay on sworn public-safety work.
Under Sheriff's Office direction, trained volunteers may be extra eyes and ears in the community. They notice a hazard or something that seems wrong, report it, and leave enforcement to deputies. This is observe-and-report support, not Neighborhood Watch and not enforcement. That is wider visibility, without pulling deputies off work that requires sworn authority.
Trained EMVIPS volunteers may take on non-enforcement tasks the Sheriff’s Office assigns — so deputies and staff can stay focused on work that requires a sworn officer or paid employee. Volunteers do only what they are directed and trained to do; the old “anything needed” line does not apply.
These are past times the Sheriff's Office directed EMVIPS volunteers to non-enforcement support. They are examples, not a list of everything volunteers do.
On Aug. 26, 2025, after a fire at Willow Springs Condominiums displaced families and closed off the building, EMVIPS volunteers assisted the Sheriff's Office with non-enforcement evacuation and safety support. Volunteers did not fight the fire or enter the building.
On June 4, 2023, a road-rage crash on Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway killed two people in a westbound car and closed the highway. EMVIPS volunteers were called to the scene early and spent more than eight hours controlling traffic so deputies and the forensics team could work safely. Volunteers stayed out in high heat and exposure with the gear they brought with them.
On the evening of May 2, 2022, a driver left the road at Cedar Valley Stables in Eagle Mountain and crashed into a horse corral, killing two young children. A heavy dust storm was going on. EMVIPS volunteers helped the Sheriff's Office with non-enforcement safety support at the scene. To stay safe and stay visible, volunteers used go-bags for emergency gear.
During the June 2012 Dump Fire, EMVIPS volunteers helped the Sheriff's Office with evacuations and safety perimeters in Kiowa Valley and in other Eagle Mountain neighborhoods that border public land.
During the September 2010 Machine Gun Fire at Camp Williams, EMVIPS volunteers helped with evacuations and safety perimeters in northern neighborhoods such as North Ranch.
We are not the Sheriff’s Office. We do not do enforcement, arrests, or pursuits. CERT and Neighborhood Watch are not EMVIPS programs.
EMVIPS volunteers are called on short notice and may stand a scene for hours. This is what to have ready.
Keep a go-bag ready. EMVIPS volunteers are often called on short notice and may stand a scene for hours. Family disaster kits, and programs such as CERT, cover a wider need than this page. What follows is the gear we keep for the support we commonly give.
Use the interest form to tell EMVIPS you want more information about volunteering. Sending the form is an expression of interest. It is not membership, assignment, or approval. After you submit, you will be contacted with current information about EMVIPS and what happens next.
You send the interest form. EMVIPS contacts you. Screening includes an interview, a ride-along with deputies, and a background check through the Utah County Sheriff's Office. Sending the form is an expression of interest. It is not membership, assignment, or approval.
Once you are serving, training and assignments are handed out at a monthly meeting.
Complete the Volunteer Interest FormStraight answers about who EMVIPS is and how to get involved.
Eagle Mountain Volunteers in Police Service (EMVIPS) is the public name of UCSO CITY VIPS. The volunteer group began before the nonprofit. UCSO CITY VIPS, a Utah nonprofit, was formed in September 2015. We provide non-sworn volunteer support to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office in Eagle Mountain.
No. EMVIPS is an independent nonprofit. We provide non-sworn volunteer support to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. We are not the Sheriff’s Office and we are not a city department.
Use the volunteer interest form to tell EMVIPS you want more information about volunteering.
Complete the Volunteer Interest FormYou will be contacted.
Yes. You will be required to pass a background check through the Utah County Sheriff's Office.
Anyone who wants to learn about non-sworn volunteer support for the Utah County Sheriff's Office in Eagle Mountain.
Donations are used to help provide necessary equipment for team members and to assist with costs that volunteers are spending. You can give through the PayPal donate button on this site. Questions? Email contact@emvips.org.
No. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Neighborhood Watch, and other city-sponsored public-safety programs are not EMVIPS programs. They appear under Community partners & resources as external links only.
UCSO CITY VIPS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 47-4197250. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please consult your tax professional.
Donations help pay for equipment team members need, and for costs volunteers are spending. Equipment is largely safety gear, fuel, and vehicles.
When the Utah County Sheriff's Office directs the work, trained EMVIPS volunteers may give non-enforcement support in four areas: Emergency Response, City Events, Neighborhood Patrol, and City Service. We are not the Sheriff's Office. We do not do enforcement, arrests, or pursuits.
Email contact@emvips.org. Messages go to the EMVIPS board.
These are city-sponsored programs and community partners. They are not EMVIPS programs.
Questions about volunteering or donating? Email contact@emvips.org. Messages go to the EMVIPS board.
Ready to help? Fill out the interest form.
